Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Sen Coburn, VA, and Senate conflict of interest rules

Watched Brit Hume interview Sen Tom Coburn tonight about senate rules demanding Coburn give up his Medical practice back in Muskogee. VA has a big Medical Center in Muskogee. Maybe Coburn can keep his Primary Care MD skills up to date with a contract with VA instead of risking conflict of interests with his own practice. Just a thought....

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On the tomb of the nineteenth century Church historian Bishop Mandel Creighton are inscribed the words: ‘He tried to write true history.’

Like the bishop – who was a member of my own college at Oxford – I believe that there is such a thing as ‘true history’.

What happened in the past is unalterable and definite. To uncover it – or as much of it as possible – the historian has several tools, among them chronology, documentation, memoirs, and the vast apparatus of scholarly work in which others have delved and laboured in the same vineyard.